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    "speaker_name": "Soy, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Kiplagat",
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    "content": " Okay. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to support the Report by the Chairperson for the Decentralised Funds Accounts Committee. First, the NG-CDF is the cornerstone of development within the constituencies. Its support by the Executive, and also in terms of the regulations by this House, will go a long way in ensuring that Members deliver what they promised the electorate. There are a number of challenges that need to be addressed. First is the issue of the bodies that are involved within the NG-CDF Committee, the district accountant, the fund manager and the NG-CDF Committee led by the Chairperson. In some situations, you will find that they are not in tandem with each other and everyone is trying to do their own things. On the fund managers, it is very important that Hon. Musa Sirma’s NG-CDF led Committee, re-trains them to ensure that they are all talking in the same frequency. You will find that some Members have very good fund managers while others have very bad ones yet they are all under the Board. In Soy, we have been forced to use acting fund managers because the other ones were very slow in terms of implementation. They seemed to interpret things in their own way that was not in tandem with the committee’s. It is very important that all the fund managers are brought together and given enough training so that they can deliver equally. Hon. Temporary Speaker, when it comes to the district accountant, I think it is important to create a NG-CDF that works in harmony. Instead of being scattered all over, I propose that all these officers are brought under the NG-CDF with the authority of the Chairperson. This will ensure that the NG-CDF employs the accountant, the procurement officer and the fund manager just becomes a secretary to the committee. This will help things flow because by listening to most of the Members here, there are a number of issues that need to be addressed. On the issue of projects, you will find that the fund manager will be very quick in paying allowances for the committee’s sittings and other things, but very slow when it comes to paying for the projects. When they have an interest in a project, especially by the Ministry of Public Works, they tend to inflate prices yet works are sometimes not well done. However, when you do an oversight to find out what happened, everybody just decides to disappear into space. It is sometimes very hard to get officers to supervise a project conclusively. You are even told that you cannot proceed with a new project until you assign money to ongoing projects. The public can see that money was not used well in the ongoing projects and yet they want you to add more money so that you can proceed with new projects. The Board should let the constituency committees work. It should not dictate to them from Nairobi. Not all minute issues should be brought to the attention of the CEO. It clogs the work flow. Even to change an account number, you have to go to the National Treasury. It is very important for the Board to work as per the NG-CDF law. Sometimes there are circulars that do not conform to regulations or the law. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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